It took less than one minute on Monday night for Sen. Joni Ernst to apply a separate set of standards to President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee than she applied four years ago when President Barack Obama had the opportunity to fill a vacancy on the nation's...
Sen. Joni Ernst and Theresa Greenfield will square off today in the first debate between the two candidates for Iowa's U.S. Senate seat. To watch, tune in to "Iowa Press" at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS or stream the hourlong program live on iowapbs.org. Coming into...
There are only 38 days until Election Day, and some of us cannot wait to see change. For many in the Latino community, this administration has been a nightmare from day one, with us enduring the insults of then-candidate Trump to suffering growing persecution and...
There are only 38 days until Election Day, and some of us cannot wait to see change. For many in the Latino community, this administration has been a nightmare from day one, with us enduring the insults of then-candidate Trump to suffering growing persecution and...
Joni Ernst's Lindsey Graham moment came in 2018 during an editorial board interview in which the Iowa senator told reporters a precedent was set in 2016 not to confirm a Supreme Court justice in an election year. Much like Sen. Graham, who in 2016 said "I want you...
Joni Ernst's Lindsey Graham moment came in 2018 during an editorial board interview in which the Iowa senator told reporters a precedent was set in 2016 not to confirm a Supreme Court justice in an election year. Much like Sen. Graham, who in 2016 said "I want you...
Mariannette Miller-Meeks kicked off the month of September with a new ad criticizing her Democratic opponent, who holds no elected office, for doing "nothing to protect us from the pandemic." Miller-Meeks, meanwhile, is a state senator, physician and...
One of my co-workers at the Des Moines Register was Gene Raffensperger, an excellent reporter with a delicious sense of humor. When Raff was working on a dull story, he often would announce to colleagues, “We’re going to need another tanker of Murine. I’ve got an...
The National Republican Congressional Committee is out with a new ad today criticizing Democrat Rita Hart for supporting a tax credit aimed at boosting Iowa's economy through investments in renewable chemicals, a growing sector in the state that benefits farmers...
It's the Democratic presidential candidate Joni Ernst thought she was undermining, it's just not playing out the way she'd hoped. In a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll released this morning, Joe Biden is tied with Donald Trump in Iowa, both garnering 47% of...
